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Visual delights : essays on the popular and projected image in the 19th century / edited by Simon Popple and Vanessa Toulmin.

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  • Essays on the popular and projected image in the 19th century
Published
  • Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England : Flicks Books 2000
Physical description
234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 1862360073
  • 9781862360075
  • 1862360065
  • 9781862360068
Notes
  • Papers from a conference held at the University of Sheffield in June 1999.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
  • Specialized.
Contents
  • Introduction / Vanessa Toulmin and Simon Popple -- The diversity of cinematographic connections in the intermedial context of the turn of the 20th century / Andre Gaudreault -- What do those old slides mean? Or why the magic lantern is not an important part of cinema history / Richard Crangle -- "To gain the whole world and lose our soul": visual spectacle and the politics of working-class consumption before 1914 / Alan Burton -- The magic lantern in connection with photography: rationalisation and technology / Jens Ruchatz -- A slippery job: travelling exhibitors in early cinema / Deac Rossell -- "It was not the show, it was the tale that you told": film lecturing and showmanship on the British fairground / Joe Kember -- Fair likeness: portrait photography at the fairground in 19th-century Britain / Audrey Linkman -- On receiving letters from despised lovers / Amy Sargeant -- Reconfiguring Annabelle's Serpentine and Butterfly dance films in early cinema history / Noemia Backer -- The Kinetoscope in Yorkshire: exploitation and innovation / Richard Brown -- "That slick salesman in the silk hat": Charles Urban arrives in Britain / Luke McKernan -- Painting and public, print and profit: Lady Butler's painting "Balaclava" and its dissemination / Tim Wilcox -- Showing the freak: photographic images of the extraordinary body / Ann Featherstone -- The smudger's art: the popular perception and representation of itinerant photographers in the 19th century / Colin Harding -- Poster nasties: censorship and the Victorian theatre poster / John Hewitt -- George Albert Smith's visions and transformations: the films of 1898 / Frank Gray -- The quest for motion: moving pictures and flight / Alison McMahan -- John and Bill Barnes: an interview / Vanessa Toulmin -- "Pictures to be shewn": programming the American Biograph / Nico de Klerk
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  • Online version:: Visual delights. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England : Flicks Books, 2000
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  • Bibliography
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Conference publication
  • History.
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  • English
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  • The popular and projected images of the 19th century are discussed, exploring their dissemination and reception, the inter-relationships of these visual media, and shared elements such as technology, performance and business practice.
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Aberystwyth University Library: Hugh Owen: Level F HM500.V8
Birkbeck, University of London Library: Contact the Library 791.09034 VIS
University of Birmingham Libraries: Main Library, Collection HM500 .V57
British Library: Lending Collection m02/13699
University of East Anglia Library: UEA Main Library. Floor 2: Main shelves - Normal loan PN1993.5.A1 POP
Edge Hill University: Ormskirk University Library 2nd floor 791.09034 2 week loan
Edge Hill University: Ormskirk University Library 2nd floor 791.09034 2 week loan
University of Exeter Library Online location Search the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Catalogue for more film resources
University of Exeter Library: Forum Library 791.430942 POP
University of Exeter Library: Bill Douglas Cinema Museum BDC Hist & Crit/POP
Lancaster University: Main Collection MAIN YXOR7 (V) C Floor
National Library of Scotland: Kelvin Hall, Glasgow Bks 182
Newcastle University Libraries: Philip Robinson Library: Robinson Books Level 4 791.4309 VIS
Northumbria University Library: City Campus Library, Floor 5 778 VIS
Royal Holloway, University of London: Royal Holloway library Davison General Three Week 301.21 VIS
University of St Andrews Library: Main Library P93.5P7
University of Salford: Clifford Whitworth Library 791.09034 VIS
Science Museum Library: Science Museum Library, Wroughton 778.5:93 VISUAL
Sheffield Hallam University Library: Adsetts Main Collection 791.4309 PO (LEVEL 6)
University of Sheffield Library: Western Bank Library NFCA VISU/851
University of Sheffield Library: Western Bank Library NFCA VISU/840
University of South Wales: Cardiff Library: Main Shelves, Week Loan 778.209 VIS
University of Southampton Library: Hartley Library: Main Collection (Standard Loan) P93.5 POP
University of Sunderland: David Goldman Informatics Centre 791.4309
Swansea University Libraries: Singleton Park Library : Main PN1993.5 >VIS
Trinity College Dublin Library: Ussher Library 778.2 P0
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University of York Libraries: University Library: Morrell - Ordinary L 1.16 POP

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